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This delicate looking but strong growing vine has graced trellis work and scrambled among summer flowers since Victorian times. Still one of the best long-blooming vines, it thrives and blooms summer to fall, and should be given a trellis to climb early in its growth.

When you need a respite from screaming hot summer color schemes, 'Elegance' offers a waterfall of white flowers blushed with pink and complemented with dark green foliage. Outstanding all-season bloom for baskets, it's low maintenance too, needing little if any deadheading and easily overwintering indoors. For sheer flower power, this one is a winner! Patented.

Creamy-white five-petaled flowers with dark purple-brown dimpled centers bloom abundantly in summer. A showy vine that is perfect for window boxes as it trails agreeably, but also suitable for trellis-work where it climbs quickly. Once called Winged Thunbergia, the white selection was noted as rare in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1836. Tolerates humid heat.

Creamy-white five-petaled flowers with dark purple-brown dimpled centers bloom abundantly in summer. A showy vine that is perfect for window boxes as it trails agreeably, but also suitable for trellis-work where it climbs quickly. Once called Winged Thunbergia, the white selection was noted as rare in Curtis's Botanical Magazine in 1836. Tolerates humid heat.

This age-old favorite has bright yellow, 1 inch long flowers that have delightfully fringed upper petals that were fancied to be a bird's wings in flight. They look to me like little orchids. The vine climbs on strings or fine trelliswork to a height of 8-12'. It was introduced to England in 1755 from its native Peru and later listed in an American seed catalog circa 1903.

Velvet skirted blooms with a hint of pink, lavender-pink stamens, and flaring sepals are the hallmarks of this beautiful variety. Medium to large flowers bloom in clusters on the branching stems. Hummingbirds will dart about the abundant flowers, sparring over rights to the sweet nectar. Edible flowers for garnishes too!

An intensely sweet almond fragrance emanates from the white trusses of bloom, scenting the air. It may be 'White Lady' described in Gause & Bissell's 1892 catalog as "free branching and of the purest white." It blooms all summer until the first frost.

This long-loved vine has acquired many names, including Love in a Puff, heart seed, and balloon vine, all very accurate descriptions of this delightful variety. Buoyant light green inflated seed capsules follow the small white flowers. Inside each capsule reside three seeds, each marked with a perfect white heart. Vining stems that climb to 10-12' hold delicate spring green cut leaves.

More heat tolerant than pansies, violas arrived in the 1860s thanks to the diligent breeding efforts of James Grieve in Scotland. By the 1890s many were available including this indispensible variety that combines colors of copper, gold, green and bronzy purple to wonderful effect.